BP Offshore Oil Drilling Board Game Has Unfortunate Implications

[dex-dex]

the game looks like fun also
it is a good idea at the time
but it is kind of awkward irony

 

[mjc0961]

I find it very disappointing that they were apparently using that board game as employee training material.

I love the delicious irony though.

 

[SniperWolf427]

That's absolutely hilarious. They should provide those for free to all of us affected by the tragedy.

That way, I can play my complimentary copy of "Offshore Oil Strike" rather than go to the beach.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

Think that that game was made to encourage people to apply for a job there. For the winners of this game, it was easy streat from there on....

 

[dex-dex]

Mmm... This irony taste great!
.

i must wonder what does irony taste like?
it is like a chocolate chip cookie or more like creme brule?

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Mmm... This irony taste great!
.

i must wonder what does irony taste like?
it is like a chocolate chip cookie or more like creme brule?

Maybe it tastes like steel?

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

I've been beaten to it, but 'Ohh the bitter, bitter irony'.

Oh that 20-20 hindsight...

 

[Irridium]

I'd put in a more in-depth comment, but I can't think straight due to me laughing so hard.

I know, your disappointed, but eh, it happens.

*continues to laugh*

 

[The Seldom Seen Kid]

Oh I see so the oil spill was actually an obscure advertising campaign to better market their board game to the public!
Bureaucratic GENIUS!

 

[zombays]

BP can go fuck themselves, and when they say they are ALL helping, why the FUCK isn't the CEO helping with the mess, or the contractors?! FUCK THEM! They have fucked up the world PERMANENTLY. Although, it's always been buttfucked since the Industrial Age, but THIS, this just shows how much oil we use as a country and as a world. If we are to stop this sort of shit from happening than we need to STOP using oil in my opinion, cause every day it gets hotter. I blame the fat, corrupt businessmen.

 

[El Poncho]

Technically it's a different company since they are no longer called British Petroleum , they are just called BP, the BP is no longer short for anything.

 

[UtopiaV1]

Why you guys calling the company British Petroleum now? It's name, the name of the company, the company's name, is BP. Not British Petroleum. That was the OLD name, but seeing as though it is now purely an American-owned company, it is called BP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bp

We wash our hands of that bloody company. Stop calling it British.

As a final bile-spewing fact of unfriendliness, might I remind you all the the top 3 largest oil-spills in history are caused by United States companies (including the US Airforce). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_spill#Largest_oil_spills

Great article by-and-by, it makes me wanna get my hands on that boardgame! Like monopoly, only with slightly more environmental damage

EDIT: Looks like El Poncho beat me to it ¬_¬

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Why you guys calling the company British Petroleum now? It's name, the name of the company, the company's name, is BP. Not British Petroleum. That was the OLD name, but seeing as though it is now purely an American-owned company, it is called BP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bp

We wash our hands of that bloody company. Stop calling it British.

As a final bile-spewing fact of unfriendliness, might I remind you all the the top 3 largest oil-spills in history are caused by United States companies (including the US Airforce). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_spill#Largest_oil_spills

Great article by-and-by, it makes me wanna get my hands on that boardgame! Like monopoly, only with slightly more environmental damage

EDIT: Looks like El Poncho beat me to it ¬_¬

Ummm. I don't think America has the number 2 spot.

 

[John Funk]

Why you guys calling the company British Petroleum now? It's name, the name of the company, the company's name, is BP. Not British Petroleum. That was the OLD name, but seeing as though it is now purely an American-owned company, it is called BP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bp

We wash our hands of that bloody company. Stop calling it British.

As a final bile-spewing fact of unfriendliness, might I remind you all the the top 3 largest oil-spills in history are caused by United States companies (including the US Airforce). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_spill#Largest_oil_spills

Great article by-and-by, it makes me wanna get my hands on that boardgame! Like monopoly, only with slightly more environmental damage

EDIT: Looks like El Poncho beat me to it ¬_¬

"A multinational oil company ("oil major"), BP is the United Kingdom's largest corporation, with its head office in St James's, City of Westminster, London"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Petroleum

And British Petroleum only officially changed its name to BP around the turn of the century. I used it in the lede because when the game was published, the name of the company was, indeed, British Petroleum

 

[pretentiousname01]

That is ironically-tragically-amusant, though I also hear that DC comics is also covering the disaster aswell.

[http://img682.imageshack.us/i/bpkillsaquamanghjgjhgjh.gif/]

yeah but its aqua man. its probably suicide since no one likes him, and he now doesn't have any friends to talk to.

 

[Danzaivar]

BP can go fuck themselves, and when they say they are ALL helping, why the FUCK isn't the CEO helping with the mess, or the contractors?! FUCK THEM! They have fucked up the world PERMANENTLY. Although, it's always been buttfucked since the Industrial Age, but THIS, this just shows how much oil we use as a country and as a world. If we are to stop this sort of shit from happening than we need to STOP using oil in my opinion, cause every day it gets hotter. I blame the fat, corrupt businessmen.

This stuff happens all the time (And usually on a larger scale) with a bunch of companies. BP just did it somewhere where it affects America...

 

[Burningsok]

This is probably how most of BP takes their job.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Sounds like a barrel of fun! (why wasn't that the tagline?)

 

[TwistedEllipses]

My dad was very fond of picking up junk at car boot sales, so I have played this game. It's incredibly complicated and incredibly boring...